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Zero Hours: Petition to Vince Cable
Imagine if your boss called you and said you were only needed for, and being paid for, five hours work next week. And probably not at all the following week. Would it be a problem making ends meet? For...
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Zero Hours: Meeting with Vince Cable
Yesterday evening, around 75 38 Degrees members gathered in central London to quiz Business Secretary Vince Cable on his plans for tackling abuse of people on zero hours contracts. Almost 2500 people...
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Matalan: Only £60,000
£60,000. That’s what it looks like clothing giant Matalan have paid in official compensation to the survivors of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. 38 Degrees members joined workers’ rights campaigners...
View ArticleLetter to Simon Stevens
A letter sent today from 38 Degrees to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England: Dear Simon Stevens, I’m frustrated to have to write to you today, after months of waiting for NHS England to...
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TTIP day of action: help make it happen!
Two days and counting: on Saturday, 38 Degrees members across the UK are meeting up to spread the word about a sinister EU-US trade deal called TTIP. The deal is huge, and almost no one knows about it....
View ArticleThe People’s March for the NHS
“Used by us, owned by us, loved by us. Now the NHS can only be saved by us.” These are the words of a group of mums who desperately want to protect our country’s most treasured service, the NHS. So...
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Join the People’s Climate March
Two days before world leaders meet for the UN climate summit, on Sunday 21st September, people will be taking to the streets across the globe. It will be the biggest climate march in history – aimed at...
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Your decision – 20th September
Every week a group of 38 Degrees members vote on which issues our movement should prioritise and which campaigns to get behind. Here are the results for last week. Protecting the NHS by stopping the...
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The People’s Climate March: In pictures
Yesterday we made history. It won’t be the last time that thousands of us take to the streets to demand action on climate change. But by coming together on one day, standing alongside hundreds of...
View ArticleMPs’ expenses: Keep them public!
Remember when we paid £2,115 to clean an MP’s moat? In 2009, many MPs were found to have abused taxpayers’ money by claiming outrageous expenses. Trust in our politicians crumbled…further. But despite...
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Is our NHS in Wales in crisis?
Over the last few months, stories about the state of healthcare in Wales have been bubbling up. Welsh hospitals have the worst waiting times in the UK, the care of elderly patients is poor, and people...
View ArticleZero hours: Sports Direct is upping its game
Sports Direct is upping its game. They were one of the worst abusers of zero hours contracts. But pressure from 38 Degrees members has forced the retail giant to make changes so that its 20,000 zero...
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Your decision: 25th October
Every week a group of 38 Degrees members vote on which issues our movement should prioritise and which campaigns to get behind. Here are the results for last week. Protecting the NHS by stopping the...
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Protect our bees
Today, environment secretary Liz Truss announced a new 10-year ‘Bee Action plan‘ to protect Britain’s bees. It comes after a series of warnings that bee populations are falling dramatically across the...
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Tweet to save our Forests
Just a few hours to go before the future of our forests is decided. The House of Lords is voting this afternoon on a law which could see our beautiful woodlands sold off to private developers....
View ArticleSave our forests: update
The campaign to exempt forests from the Infrastructure Bill is causing a stir. A huge 150,000 of us signed the petition, and today it was carried into the Lords as they started their debate. And the...
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Save our forests: victory!
Our forests have been saved – again! And together we played a huge part in that. The government was trying to sneak through plans which would have paved the way for our forests to be sold off. But at...
View ArticleForests: we won! a personal view
Hello! I’m one of the 38 Degrees staff team – and I’ve been working on the forests campaign over the last 24 hours. Here’s a personal reflection on how great the last day has been and why 38 Degrees...
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NHS England: What on earth are we paying for?
Could Jeremy Hunt’s NHS executives be wasting millions of pounds of our money? For weeks, NHS England – the people he put in charge of our NHS – have been promising to show how they are spending our...
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Primary schools in North Port Talbot under threat
Despite being marked as outstanding, the council wants to close three primary schools in North Port Talbot: in Tonmawr, Pontrhydyfen and Bryn. Children as young as 5 will be forced to get a bus to a...
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